STEPHANE HENCHOZ is worried Liverpool are dropping too many points against the Premiership's strugglers as they continue to stumble in their pursuit of fourth spot.

STEPHANE HENCHOZ is worried Liverpool are dropping too many points against the Premiership's strugglers as they continue to stumble in their pursuit of fourth spot.

Yesterday's 2-2 draw at Elland Road leaves the Reds in sixth, although they will move above Newcastle if they win their game in hand.

Gerard Houllier's side has now dropped eleven points against teams currently in the bottom seven.

But Henchoz, (pictured), is still confident the club will claim the final Champions League spot and believes Leeds proved they are in a false position in yesterday's entertaining match.

"It's starting to get very tough in the race for fourth place," admitted the Swiss centre-back.

"When we drop points against teams we expect to beat, it does start to get worrying for us. But the way results have gone over the weekend, it's not proven to be such a bad result for us drawing at Leeds.

"Obviously we were looking at the Newcastle result at Portsmouth and hoping they'd lose points there. It also helped us that Charlton lost on Saturday.

"At the same time I would agree it was a case of two points dropped for us because we went to Leeds to win and we had a perfect start. I think Leeds probably deserve a lot credit for the way they came back into the game. They caused us a lot of problems.

"It's a game we could have won, but at the end we were also glad we didn't lose. It was that sort of match.

"The problem we had yesterday is because Leeds are in trouble and bottom of the league everyone thinks it's going to be easy for anyone who plays there.

"But now it's obvious they are not the same Leeds we saw in October when we last played them. I think the way they played showed they probably should not be at the bottom. They didn't play like a bottom club team to me."

Stunning goals from Harry Kewell and Milan Baros weren't enough to secure three priceless points for the Reds who travel to Sofia today ahead of their second leg UEFA tie.

Henchoz was delighted Kewell silenced the Elland Road boo-boys.

He said: "Nothing seemed to affect Harry. He had a very good game today and has now scored two great goals in a row. That will help his confidence and his form is good news for us."

The Reds flew out to Sofia today for Wednesday's third round, second leg without injury victims John Arne Riise (groin) and Florent Sinama Pongolle (ankle).

Long term absentees Salif Diao and Vladimir Smicer were also left behind.